Skill Setting Clues - Scholastic

Skill

Visualizing Settings Drawing Conclusions Examining Word Choice

Setting Clues

Purpose

Students list words that describe a story's setting and then draw pictures to show how they visualize the setting.

Management Tip

Introducing the Activity

To introduce this organizer, have all students use the same word list for a particular setting. Later, they can generate their own lists based on the stories they read.

Ask students: When you read a story, do you imagine how the characters or setting might look? Explain that these images are an important part of the reading experience; authors carefully choose words to help readers visualize their stories. Students might also talk about what they visualized as they read a story and how these images matched or differed from a movie version of the story.

Literature Link

Using the Graphic Organizer

Love, Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles (Gulliver Books, 2005).

Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, making new friends, and finally coming to terms with her grandfather's death.

1. Read aloud a picture book or passage that contains descriptive words

that will help students visualize the setting (don't show any pictures that accompany the passage). Ask them to try to visualize the setting as you read.

2. Distribute copies of the graphic organizer. Have students fill in

the title. Then ask them to name words that describe

the setting. For example, for Love, Ruby Lavender by

Name Title:

Holly

Date

Setting Clues

Love, Ruby Lavender

Feb. 12

Deborah Wiles, they might respond with dirt yard, split-rail fence, and country road. Write the words on the board and have students copy them in the box.

3. Ask students to draw a picture on the camera to

Word Clues

show how they visualize the setting based on the

dirt yard egg ranch dusty sea hot June sun

chicken house split-rail fence country road fields

word clues list.

4. Invite students to share their drawings. Point out

that each person's memory and imagination is

unique; although they used the same descriptive

words, they most likely drew very different pictures.

Taking It Further

Instead of focusing on setting, have students listen for clues that describe a character and then draw pictures accordingly.

Reading Response for Fiction: Graphic Organizers & Mini-Lessons ? 2008 by Jennifer Jacobson, Scholastic Teaching Resources, page 13

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Reading Response for Fiction Graphic Organizers & Mini-Lessons ? 2008 by Jennifer Jacobson, Scholastic Teaching Resources

Name Title:

Date

Setting Clues

Word Clues

Reading Response for Fiction: Graphic Organizers & Mini-Lessons ? 2008 by Jennifer Jacobson, Scholastic Teaching Resources, page 13

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